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<tt>Hi All,<br>
<br>
The beta3 edition of the standard engine pack is now available on
the computergo wiki:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://computergo.wikispaces.com/CGOS+Standard+Engine+Packs">http://computergo.wikispaces.com/CGOS+Standard+Engine+Packs</a><br>
<br>
This uses the new comma bots implemented by Don. This allows you
to contribute to the global rating of the bots.<br>
<br>
When you first start, you need to pick a password and a suffix. I
have taken "r" as I wanted to let you guys have the prestigious 0,
1, 2, 3 number prefixes =)<br>
<br>
This edition auto-restarts all engines after each round to get
around stability problems with a couple of the engines under
Windows. Do not be alarmed as windows disappear after each game
and then reappear - this is intentional.<br>
<br>
The file I've uploaded is just the "lite" engine pack, which is
designed to work on pretty much any Windows hardware. I've only
been able to test it on Windows XP, so if you have Vista or
Windows 7, I'd be very interested to hear whether the engine pack
works successfully on your platform.<br>
<br>
The "hevy" pack will follow in the next week or two. I've done
most of the work I think, just a case of getting it time on the
server to iron out wrinkles.<br>
<br>
I've included release notes for this version, which covers both
lite and heavy packs in a file called version.txt.<br>
<br>
Any questions, do ask.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Raffles<br>
<br>
</tt><tt>PS If you're away from e-mail, you can get to the wiki via
Google if you search for computergo wiki, as long as you put
computergo in as a single word - unfortunately "computer" and "go"
are both rather common words!</tt>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=computergo+wiki">http://www.google.com/search?q=computergo+wiki</a> Alternatively
searching for cgos standard engine pack, or, cgos gtp engine, works
quite well as cgos is an unusual "word". <a
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cgos+gtp+engine">http://www.google.com/search?q=cgos+gtp+engine</a><br>
<br>
On 18/11/2010 14:44, Don Dailey wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTinnA7a17G70JLo2pRdV6h2ERk7pCpo-mkNkqzOm@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">There are now several comma bots on the server. This
should have a good impact on bringing the ELO ratings in line with
the Bayeselo page. I'm currently copying over their ratings
every 2 hours.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
So now we have a couple of questions to ask the group -
primarily for those actually using CGOS. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>One possible use of comma bots is for users to have control
over how their programs get rated. It was my original
intentions to forbid general usage of this mechanism, but
it occurred to me that it's possible to just open this up to
everyone - you create a comma bot if you want the bayeselo
rating to be copied over (every 2 hours or so.) This
effectively gives your bot the most accurate rating as it's
based on your exact performance over all the games you have ever
played. It would also have a positive affect on the rating
pool accuracy. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Another possibility is to discourage this and reserve it for
clone bots designed to add stability to the rating system. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>As a separate issue it is possible to use this copy mechanism
for bots who have played less than 100 or 200 games. Since
that is probably a huge number of bots over time it would be
restricted to bots that have recent activity, perhaps within the
last 24 hours. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Any thoughts on either of these points?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
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